2023-09-08 00:00:00
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett struggle to lift this comedy co-produced by the company of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and which is sorely lacking in magic.
It was to be expected that the saga of the Portokalos family initiated by Nia Vardalos in 2002 might not end with the second – and very average – feature film of 2016. A sequel was absolutely necessary.
This incorporates the death of actor Michael Constantine, father of Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Nick (Louis Mandylor) who therefore decide to go to his native village in Greece. The pretext? The family reunion of the Portokalos clan.
Suffering from the onset of dementia, Maria (Lainie Kazan), the mother, remains at home while the rest of the family crosses the Atlantic and part of the Mediterranean. Welcomed by Victory (Melina Kotselou), the village mayor (non-binary just to check an inclusive box without, unfortunately, contributing anything to the scenario), the family will go in search of the father’s childhood friends, attend a wedding and will, of course, make a surprising discovery.
But without the moving issue and the touching humor of the first feature film and without the chemistry between the two main actors, John Corbett being singularly absent, the whole thing goes nowhere.
The superb landscapes, the blues and greens, the nature, the white houses and a visit to a more touristy village fail to make us forget the emptiness of the scenario. The marriage of the century 3 is therefore content to be just a postcard, nothing more.
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